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...like you? Is it at all autobiographical? Yes. She is the person I might have been had I not married young and had children. When I was growing up, I didn't get, "You could be a police officer," which might have been really, really fun. I have great respect for law enforcement, and I think it is an interesting career. I worked in the medical field before my work began to support me, and I like medicine and I like law enforcement because they're life on the edge. You are dealing with people who are in trouble...
...Hoving loved expanding the museum's collections, and he loved the chase. He didn't mind spending lavishly for major works like the Met's great Velázquez portrait of Juan de Pareja, which cost $5.5 million in 1971, a sum that qualified it then as the most expensive painting in the world. He also didn't mind selling off a Van Gogh and a Rousseau to help cover the cost, which got him into a public feud with the press over the notion of museums selling their treasures to buy new ones. The controversy brought on an investigation...
...He’s always been the courageous person to speak out and to make sure that his point is heard,” says Smith’s roommate Jia Hui Lee ’12. “It’s great because there are not many students who identify as trans at Harvard, so having him speak out and voice certain views is very, very important...
...lost an eight-year battle against cancer, and his mother was institutionalized for illness shortly thereafter. Adopted by a sympathetic aunt, Ho arrived in the United States at the age of 13, unable to speak English and never having played football. “He’s a great example of the human spirit,” says Coach Tim L. Murphy, Head Coach for Harvard Football. “What are the odds that a kid who lands in the United States basically as an orphan with no money or language skills ends up as a Harvard football...
Some liberal economists have maintained that the stimulus bill in February was not big enough to fill the economic crater left by the financial crisis. Obama aides refused to endorse that position, even after Obama began planning another stimulus effort in September. Though the Great Recession is officially over, credit remains scarce, unemployment hovers above 10%, commercial real estate is crashing, home foreclosures are rising, and many state and local governments are teetering on the brink of insolvency. The nation, in other words, is out of the operating room but not yet home from the hospital. "If we go back...